. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . her of Tarquin theElder, must have been. (Mus6e Kapolean III., explanation of pi. ) [The tomb hererepresented on the plate is very similar to that now in the Museum.] Let us note thattill-Etruscans interred their dead, ami did not burn them: the contrary was 1 lie ease in thelater times of the republic and under the empire, [or rather both customs prevailed.—/irf.] ^ See the work of JI. Noel des Vergers, Vtitrurie et //•??< Efnt^qucs ou ans de fouillesdant leg Maremnws
. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . her of Tarquin theElder, must have been. (Mus6e Kapolean III., explanation of pi. ) [The tomb hererepresented on the plate is very similar to that now in the Museum.] Let us note thattill-Etruscans interred their dead, ami did not burn them: the contrary was 1 lie ease in thelater times of the republic and under the empire, [or rather both customs prevailed.—/irf.] ^ See the work of JI. Noel des Vergers, Vtitrurie et //•??< Efnt^qucs ou ans de fouillesdant leg Maremnws /oscanes. Varro {de Linr/. Lat., iv. 9), speaks of Etruscan tragedies wliieliare lost. AVe have nearly two thousand inscriptions, but we caimot understand them, and MaxMiiller, in his Science of Lan;/uai/e, is obliged to pa.«s over the lOtruscan in silence. Theinterpretations of Corsscn, who [thought tlie laiigua^ro Indo-European, and] was for a timecalUil tlio (Ivlipus of the Etruscan Spliinx. liavc been aliandoncd, and (he Sphinx remainsmule [till we find a bilingiuil text.—7iV7.] Ib^. THE ETRUSCANS. Lxi FlorentineInscnptiou EtruscanMinor PerngianInscription Patera fromNdla, Vase fromBomarzo 1 VaseGalassi Patera fromKola, No. 1 ( C D D > > c D > ^ s 7 3 a a B £ J33 > s 7 *l A ^ : 11: 1 ] f ^ e * f z N ^ /? k3 d BBH ^Be e © 0 0 o O0<bE] O0 i 1 1 1 1 1 1 J si y vJ vJ \j vV\ ^A nA/| m \/v\ in nul ^ vv||/|/|W\f^ V\ /v\ ^ H v\ H M 1^ 1/1 iih A P 1 1 1 7 1 717 \A M M M /A AA M d S D °i > •<. mir Tfiy V V V V Y V VYK V Y 0 0 0 ® 9 ^i. T i V Y 4^ vL nI vl. 8 ? s 8 888 8 8 Some Etruscan Alphabets. kno-w. Docoivod by the iiaiiio of the Tyrrhenians, who had pre-ceded the Etruscans north of tli(> Tiber, the Greeks took them forPehisgians, and represented them as having travelled fi-oni Thessalyand Asia Minor into Tuscany. But, on the testimony of Dionysiusof Halicarnassus, tlu>ir language, their laws, their customs, andthe
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